Secret mission from the depths: How Israel brought a submariner home to bury his brother killed in Gaza

Secret mission from the depths: How Israel brought a submariner home to bury his brother killed in Gaza. An extraordinary Israeli military operation from last year has now been revealed.

An Israeli Navy submariner was deep into a secret operational mission, at what was described as “one of the farthest points an Israeli force had ever reached,” when the submarine commander received a devastating message: the soldier's brother had been killed fighting in Gaza.

The submarine could not simply turn around. It was in the middle of an important mission far from Israel, and returning to port could have taken weeks.

The commander called the soldier into his small cabin and told him his brother was gone. The two stood there crying together. His mother was then connected to him through the submarine's communication system.

Then the IDF decided to do something extraordinary: “Do the impossible and bring him home.”

The Navy and Air Force secretly put together a rescue operation. A ship carrying a special force was sent toward the submarine, a helicopter was prepared, and secret meeting points were set at sea. The operation was approved at the highest levels.

About 24 hours later, the message finally came: “The journey home can begin.”

The soldier was taken from the submarine in the middle of its mission and brought back to Israel in time to stand at his brother's funeral and say Kaddish.

The submarine then continued its secret mission and returned to Israel only weeks later.

When it finally entered port, the fallen soldier's family was waiting on the dock to thank the commanders who had done everything possible to bring one brother home so he could say goodbye to the other.

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